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by CarelessExpert 6y ago
I achieve this using https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/ (or https://fed.brid.gy/ https://fed.brid.gy/ if you want your blog to appear as a first class member of the Fediverse), though in my case I just syndicate out to Twitter. I then collect the webmentions using https://webmention.io/ https://webmention.io/.
The nice thing about this is I get a breadth of methods for receiving comments/reactions across multiple platforms, including anything that directly supports webmention (such as https://micro.blog/ https://micro.blog/, where my posts are also syndicated), without having to do any of the platform-specific wiring myself.
- ognarb 6y agoI keep hearing about webmentions in my fediverse bubble, maybe one day I should take a look at it.
- CarelessExpert 6y agoHonestly, I set up webmentions to use brid.gy, not just for the sake of using webmentions. I wanted a two-way integration between my static blog and Twitter, and this solution has done the job nicely. That I ended up with direct webmention support was just a bonus as far as I'm concerned.
- FalconSensei 6y agoSo, would brid.gy automatically post your blog post to twitter? That's what you mean by two-way integration?
- CarelessExpert 6y agoCorrect. Using the right microformats, it'll auto syndicate notes as tweets and full posts as tweets with a summary and a link. All my site has to do is shoot out a webmention to brid.gy and it does the rest. Then when people react (reply, like, etc) it'll proxy those interactions back as webmentions.
- input_sh 6y agoFor the unaware, they're essentially identical to WordPress' Pingbacks. You configure your website so that other websites let you know whenever they link to you.
- andrewshadura 6y agoGreat, thanks! I was just about to write something similar, and now I think I don't need to
- StavrosK 6y agoThis looks fantastic, does it support plain RSS? My blog is a static site, but I'd like it to be exposed to the fediverse.
- CarelessExpert 6y agoJust check the site for details. The short version is you need an Atom feed.
- StavrosK 6y agoI did, looks like it needs webmentions, which needs server-side code.
- CarelessExpert 6y agoThat's what webmention.io is for. It'll receive webmentions on your behalf and then expose an API to pull em down. You hit that API during your static site build or do it dynamically with some client side JS. Either way it allows you to avoid hosting any services yourself.
- StavrosK 6y agoOh I see, thank you.
- winrid 6y ago(another) self plug - if you use FastComments, you can get an RSS feed of your comments: https://blog.fastcomments.com/(7-08-2020)-create-an-rss-feed-from-your-comments.html https://blog.fastcomments.com/(7-08-2020)-create-an-rss-feed...
- rattray 6y agoNice! How much does this approach cost (ballpark)?
- CarelessExpert 6y agoOther than my time to set it up? Zero. All the services I mentioned are operated for free (or can be self-hosted).
- criddell 6y agoAre the interactions valuable enough that if it weren’t available for free, you would be willing to pay for it each month?
- CarelessExpert 6y agoI'm not doing anything to build a readership, so my content doesn't get a lot of interactions. So for me, no. If I had a real twitter following, though, I might have a different answer.
- FalconSensei 6y agoThanks a lot for the tip. Did that last night and it was very easy to set up. Now I just need to display them on my blog :)